gatty

hello all, i have just got back from 2 days on the lash in a town called "Grafanou"

I cant beleive it took me 33 years to discover this part of the world!

The people are so nice! The best beer in the world! And the air is so fresh and sweet!

What a place,

TopBanana

Everyone I know who's worked / served in Germany raves about the place.

Luminous

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Yes, it is a nice place in the world. Been a long time since I went. So long in fact that I was too young to enjoy the beer

gatty

i flew out of terminal 2 Heathrow to munich, what a difference!! you could had eaten your dinner off the floor at munich.

I tell you it aint the germans , french , etc... who has the problem its us. Gutter level standards taken as the norm and brainwashed to excepting the saying "good and bad" blah blah.

Great Britain? chav scum Britain more like

NAF

Bavaria rocks!

Went to the Oktoberfest few yrs ago ... was out of this world!

Munich is a fabulous city

ScoTTyB

Should be heading to Munich for a night out soon, people at work always go on about how good it is and how much Frankfurt sucks (I kinda like it here personally)

Gutmann pug

Did the same myself on Monday. Munich is some airport


Spent 3 nights there. It is a nice city but nothing spectacular. Well I didnt think so anyway. Beer is nice though

what would scooby do

Rhine valley and all its castles are totally awesome..

I've worked in most of the big cities in Germany, but the best bits are definitely the rural areas - Mit Wasser und Bäumen

AsifScoob

Hi Gatty,

It's ironic you should say that. I was recently involved in a big project to upgrade MUC, as we call it.

So we in Britain can claim some credit for it and I am glad to know my hard work and that of my colleagues was not in vain.

Asif

fatherpierre

Germany has all the problems we have.

A weekend on the **** from someone with money in their pocket, there for a good time doesn't make it a great place.your

No offence, but I'm sure every visitor to ******, or ******, or even ******* who went there for a good time - and had that good time would say, "k'kin great place. Why can't it be like that where I live?"

Wake up.

When I was a kid I wanted to live in Blackpool becuase of the amusements and theme park.

Blackpool's a 'kin dump, now I'm older..............

gatty

your point is valid fatherpiere, i was there on business though. I did not see any burkurhs or ninjas in munich airport that was a good start for me, then things only got better. In the sticks where i was staying the gerneral public in the street were so friendly do you remember these people in britain? Its going back a bit.

ok keeping it simple.

Heathrow vs munich (airport) = 1-0 to the krouts
uk friendlyness vs Krout friendlyness= 1-0 to the krouts

OK so these are only first impressions, so what i can see differences regardless what other problems were all having, making allowences for in this dive, blah blah blah.

And Asif, how are you? and what the hell is muc?

ScoTTyB

I guess MUC is the code for Munich airport. Check out this survey too, FYI London is 39th, check out the country with alot of cities in the top 10:

The world's top cities offering the best quality of life:

2007 Rank 2006 Rank City Country Points
1 1 Zurich Switzerland 108.1
2 2 Geneva Switzerland 108.0
=3 3 Vancouver Canada 107.7
=3 4 Vienna Austria 107.7
=5 5 Auckland New Zealand 107.3
=5 6 Düsseldorf Germany 107.3
7 7 Frankfurt Germany 107.1
8 8 Munich Germany 106.9
=9 9 Bern Switzerland 106.5
=9 9 Sydney Australia 106.5
11 11 Copenhagen Denmark 106.2
12 12 Wellington New Zealand 105.8
13 13 Amsterdam Netherlands 105.7
14 14 Brussels Belgium 105.6
15 15 Toronto Canada 105.4
16 16 Berlin Germany 105.2
17 17 Melbourne Australia 105.0
=18 18 Luxembourg Luxembourg 104.8
=18 21 Ottawa Canada 104.8
20 20 Stockholm Sweden

AsifScoob

Hello Gatty, how's tricks?

Am fine thanks, you? Yes MUC is Munich in Airport speak.

Was up in Brum recently, didn't see too many Burkhas or Ninja's, but then I was in Solihull.

Asif

davegtt

FWIW Germany was never a place I was interested in visiting but now Ive been, it definately get the thumbs up from me. Frankfurt was ok but maybe a little too industrial and too many works. More so like London, Nuremberg is a gorgeous place though with friendly people and lots of nice pubs and beer Had a great time there and wouldnt hesitate to go back.

Plus its clean and not the usual dump you see around here where we should employ more litter pickers than anything else.

davyboy

Great race track, great beer.

I'll be doing both at the weekend, and watch the F1 and rugby.

Leslie

Hope you didn't mention the War.

Seriously though, I loved Munich too, and the pigs trotters, and the Bratwurst, and the Schnitzel, and the draught beer is outstanding.

Les

gatty

yeah good grub alright, i fancy having a look all around that region now , austria, switzland etc... holidays are not always about getting a tan and drinking dodgy beer.

Asif, solihull has its quoter of muzzers there just a bit more wealthier, and like to stay in there manors and get white people to do there shopping for them You know the score

AsifScoob

LOL!

I aspire to that you know? I look around me in Solihull and think, "Where did all these white people come from? Not like the rest of Brum". Just joking of course!

Back on topic, I really liked Germany, although I only travel there on business. Firm has business all over the place, but only has an office in FRA, sorry Frankfurt, so that's where we go.

I was put off taking a holiday in Germany after watching "Funny Games", a German movie made by Michael Haneke. I think Hollywood are doing a remake.

Property is dirt cheap though, friend of a friend has just bought about half a dozen Buy to Lets in the Centre of Berlin, probably on the Eastern side. He only outlayed about £100k.

German property market has been on the decline for years, so he is gambling that it will change around and go up. He will get good rental, as that is popular over there, but who knows if his assets will appreciate?

So Gatty, are you going to consider a move over there?

Asif

j4ckos mate

bavaria islovely you should try austrian tyrol if you like muc,

innsbruck and aslzburg are beautiful and so clean. try googling krimml waterfalls.

j4ckos mate

everyone looks so healthy

Wurzel

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you should try living here before you all draw your " how lovely it is! and the grass is greaner" opinions !!!!!

InvisibleMan

definately. Dont think i saw a single piece of rubbish in the streets anywhere. Was amazed at the speed at which the council cleaned the place after rock avalances/ river flooding.

at tops of mountains theres a pub with beers chilling in the cold water horse troughs and of course the apple strudel and vanilla sauce

Steve Whitehorn

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I have a flat in the center of Munich. So if any of you regular scoobynetters make it down this way. PM me.
And yes it is one of the best places to live in the world. So your first impressions were not wrong Gatty.
Steve

Steve Whitehorn

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Hi Steve
Hope you get the car sorted
Going off line now

The Trooper 1815

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Having spent time in Germany from the 70's through to the 00's I can say that the Germans had our problems and have cured them. Their Health Service is brill, public transport ace, trains are like swiss watches and beer is the dogs, except B**tard which is muck, oh and muckey books .

When the MOD ****canned military hospitals we all thought it was going to be ****e. Wrong, my misses need an MRI scan............two days later scan done!

As regards to the area, it's brill and as already stated get over to the area of Garmisch, get up the Zugspitzs and look at 4 countries from one point at the top of the Fatherlands tallest mountain. Roads are fantastic too.

gatty

clean !! come to mention it the nearest thing to rubbish i seen on the side of the autobahn was a renault with its bonnet lifted with smoke bellowing out!

immaculate comes to mind not like sparkbrook a asif?

And asif i would not right off the option later in life? i reckon were on a downward slope over here . As you probably know.

karl h

worked there for 6 years the main cities and a few smaller places
great place nice people and really clean

AsifScoob

Sparkbrooks not so bad, late at night and when very hungry!

So, will you learn the lingo if you decide to go?

Moving country is a serious move. I remember that you have travelled quite a bit, different to live there though, no?

Asif

Luan Pra bang

I find the place dull. the people dull the food lacking in flavour and never want to go back. I did stumble on a town there called wildehausen which clearly exhists in some kind of twilight zone and that was the highlight of my time there.

gatty

with all due respect asif there's millions who have come here from some crap places and doing well out of my country including your forefathers, now this place is heading towards being crap for some natives what are the options?

pc or not this is the feeling for millions of natives fact. i dont want to turn this into a political row i just say it how it is. They clearly dont put up with half the crap we pc soft as crap nation puts up with and that is clear!